Devotions

Have you ever missed a miracle? God working in through and around you, but you missed it?  Have you ever longed for an answer to prayer? Have you ever wanted healing in a relationship? Sometimes God has already answered through his perseverance, his presence in our situation. After my dad passed away, I went through a brokenness that was deep, painful and ever present.  I was hurting in ways I didn’t know were possible. In looking back on that season, God was present, working

Today is the day in between the horrific, intentional death of Jesus and the hope that we know is coming tomorrow.  It is just like in a movie, when the viewer knows the plot and the background story and even what is going to happen, but the characters portrayed in the movie do not. I know that Sunday is coming.  I know that Jesus rises from the dead forever satisfying our debt to God and the penalty of our sin.  I know that.  I know the hope of the resurrection.   But today,

Ephesians 4:15-16 “ Instead, speaking the truth in love we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love as each part does its work.” (NIV) I have always been short… you know the front row in the class pictures, never able to reach anything on the high shelves. So my truth is that I am indeed shorter than most individuals. Sometimes the tru

The Most Excellent Way I Corinthians 12:31 “And now I will show you the most excellent way.” Any time scripture starts a chapter with a conjunctive word, you have to look back to the chapter before to know what ideas the author is bridging from to make his next point.  So looking back through chapter 12 Paul is sharing about spiritual gifts and the giftings that we use to build up the church.  It is also talking about the church being one body with many parts.  He shares that

While I have read this psalm a 1,000 times, something recently popped off the page in a new and real way.  The word of God is living and active. (Hebrews 4:12)  This psalm became alive in a new way.  This is a prayer, but it is also a promise.  It is a promise of a Good Shepherd who is our provider, our protector, our sustain-er .  He leads us to what we need.  He sees the dangers ahead and makes provision.  Read this amazing Psalm again and look for  his promises.  Accept th

I Timothy 1:18-19 18 Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the battle well, 19 holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith. Some of the best advice I have ever received is ‘to hold the line.’  I can attest that some of the worst decisions I have made are when I don’t hold the line and I let things s